Karthus vs Nautilus
How to Beat Nautilus as Karthus
based on 1,995 Karthus vs Nautilus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Nautilus Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nautilus as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Nautilus
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Advice to Win Against Nautilus
If Nautilus uses Riptide right next to you, hold in place until the ripple effect finishes before running. Running early will run straight into the secondary explosions, causing you to take additional damage and slow.
While Nautilus is shielded, he is capable of dealing large amounts of area of effect damage with his basic attacks - consider taking down the shield if you have time.
Karthus vs Nautilus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nautilus with Karthus in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several important Karthus versus Nautilus counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s ratio of NaN, showing that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nautilus. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Karthus usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Nautilus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Nautilus
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Who is Better, Karthus or Nautilus?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nautilus, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Karthus makes an ok counter for Nautilus.
While Karthus does have a higher winrate compared to Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Karthus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Karthus into Nautilusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nautilus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Karthus is a decent counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Karthus against Nautilus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus on average gets more CS as Nautilus. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Karthus versus Nautilus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Nautilus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Nautilus as Karthus, Karthus players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Karthus vs Nautilus battles, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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